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ASHP/CSHP: Lynna Le ’21 provided asthma awareness education to elementary school students in the Pomona School District; ASHP/CSHP: Saturday, October 26, 2019,
National Drug Take Back Day at Kaiser Permanente Ontario Medical Center. Tina Vu ’21, Xuyen Mai ’23, Tiffanie Tran ’21, Mailyn Nguyen ’21, Anny Huynh ’21, Stephanie
Lee ’22, Crystal Lao ’22, Lin Aye ’22 and Victoria Caripo Mera ’22.

elementary students. Our goal is to help children understand goody bags and serve dinner for the underserved. We served
the importance of asthma awareness and using inhalers to spaghetti and meatballs with salad for dinner with cinnamon
prevent worsening of respiratory issues. rolls for dessert. Many of the community members stopped
by to enjoy a warm dinner. After serving dinner, our
In May, we provided asthma education on campus to
committee passed out goody bags that we prepared for those
celebrate World Asthma Day by educating student
in need. The goody bags included various chips, granola
pharmacists about the link between air quality and asthma.
bars, cookies and hygiene products. In addition to this
We presented materials about air quality index (AQI), how
partnership with PHOP, our committee utilized our CSHP’s
to read and interpret the daily AQI, and how different air
last social to collect canned goods. With the holiday season
pollutant particles can affect the lungs and trigger asthma
coming close, we wanted to provide for the community
attacks. Students also learned how to counsel asthmatic
around us because it is all about giving. The can food drive
patients on what to do with air quality readings and how
was a huge success and we wish everyone happy holidays!
they should adjust their daily routines accordingly.
At our recent health fair at the LA Care Community
Resource Center, student pharmacists provided blood CAPSLEAD
By Jass Kim ’21
glucose, blood pressure, and BMI screenings to the
community members of Pomona. We also had the California Pharmacy Student Leadership (CAPSLEAD)
opportunity to provide education on lifestyle modifications program’s goals are to provide participants opportunities to
and medication adherence to help improve health outcomes. examine the strength, weakness, leadership styles and apply
Next year, we are collaborating with the resource center to those skills to complete a project together as a team. The
provide health education classes on the topics of respiratory CAPSLEAD 2019 team members include Celia Boone ’22,
diseases and nutrition. We hope to continue to give back to Edison Escobar ’21, Jass Kim ’21, Nhu Nguyen ’21,
the city of Pomona and promote healthy lives for all in the Alexander Ou ’21, Gabrielle Szczeblowski ’22, Megan
next year! Tanwanseng ’21, and Jerald Verona ’21. After attending the
CSHP’s Nutrition committee partnered up with WesternU’s 2019 CAPSLEAD meeting at Chapman University School of
Pomona Homeless Outreach Program (PHOP) to prepare Pharmacy, the WesternU CAPSLEAD team, under the
guidance of Drs. Benjamin Malcolm and Anne Kugler, set
out to assess self-perceptions of practice-readiness in final-
year pharmacy students and newly graduated pharmacists
both with and without post-doctoral degrees. The team
developed a survey based on the American Association of

Thank you to Walgreens and LA County for their donation of

Flu Vaccines for our community outreach health fairs.

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